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Data Protection for Financial Firms deals with the practical application of privacy legislation and offers direction in developing and maintaining an effective privacy regime.

The book provides the reader with practical guidance across a broad range of data protection issues, from dealing with marketing concerns from a legal and practitioner perspective to providing training and awareness to staff.

The contributors have given advice from their practical experience as practitioners or advisors and have provided viewpoints from a legal, technical, and operational perspective.

The special physical characteristics of commodities such as electricity, natural gas and oil mean that standard pricing models applied in financial markets for risk management and valuation purposes cannot simply be transferred and used as energy pricing models.

An Introduction to Models for the Energy Markets provides a clear exposition of the thinking behind the range of models used today in energy finance.

Exchange-Traded Funds, a new book from Risk Books, provides in one handy and accessible volume the complete guide to taking advantage of this global market.

The lure of alpha combined with the ease of an index-like product has made exchange-traded funds (ETF) a potent force in financial markets.

Since the first ETF was launched 15 years ago, their ease of use and benefits to investors have led to exponential growth. Today, 1,000 ETFs, worth more than $700bn, offer an astonishing number of investment choices across a growing range of asset classes for anyone with a brokerage account.

Yet rapid expansion and increasing specialisation make understanding this complex sector – and identifying opportunities in it – a daunting task.

This Executive Report offers for the first time a complete and integrated view on all aspects of Islamic investing and risk management, focusing on all currently existing types of Islamic financial products worldwide. It is a valuable guide for both Islamic and conventional financial institutions.

The Executive Report is a "hands-on", practical report and is a practitioners’ handbook for practical issues both on investing and risk management (for both conventional and Islamic readers), and although religious issues are included the report does not exclusively focus on religious discussions by Islamic scholars.

Islamic capital markets have a low correlation to other market segments, allowing the selective underweighting of particular sectors and seem to be relatively independent, even from market turbulences like the subprime crisis and the ongoing problems with the markets that we are currently experiencing.

The increasing complexity of the derivatives market requires a better knowledge of advanced modelling techniques specifically designed to accommodate the great deal of volatility data quoted by the market.

In Modelling Interest Rates, some of the most renowned practitioners and academics working in the interest rate area provide contributions on the latest developments in interest rate modelling, focusing primarily on the practical implementation of the latest derivatives pricing models.

A Guide to Carbon Finance expounds invaluable real-life insights into the scope and sources of the value chain within the world of carbon finance and carbon markets. Senior executives of global corporations and financial institutions will gain a critical grasp and improved understanding of each of the key elements of the carbonomics value chain – from originating of the carbon assets, to financing, structuring, investing, insuring and trading.

This Executive Report is a guide to the new world of carbonomics – a world in which carbon has a price.

The market for foreign exchange remains one of the most complex, liquid and dynamic in the world. As such, academic work on the subject is extensive. Yet, to date, the extent of detailed industry-focused research remains small.

Foreign Exchange: A Practitioner’s Approach to the Market bridges this gap, bringing together leading researchers from the frontiers of foreign exchange to produce the most up-to-date tool-kit for the management of currency.

Throughout the emphasis is on new and cutting-edge techniques forged in the unforgiving world of foreign-exchange trading to meet the challenges of today’s volatile markets.

Stress Testing for Financial Institutions will provide you with guidance in regard to the stress testing process and includes several chapters on scenario analysis written by practitioners at Citigroup, Swedbank, GE Capital and the Bank of Finland.

This is the only book currently on the market that focuses solely on this subject, with sections broken down into close examination of stress testing in the context of corporate and retail credit risk, economic capital and regulatory capital.

For a long while, the new Basel Accord has been identified mostly with Pillar I. As Pillar II models have started to be established and validated, banks have become increasingly conscious of the strategic relevance of Pillar II.

Pillar II in the New Basel Accord: The Challenge of Economic Capital takes you through every main strand of Pillar II. It tackles the regulatory framework and shows how to reconcile the various regulatory sources.

The financial crisis has seen wild swings in inflation and inflation expectations

As markets tried to digest deflationary forces unleashed by the credit crunch they were hit with fears of the inflationary impact of huge government spending. Will today’s falling prices quickly give way to an inflation backlash? How are you managing these risks?

Inflation Risks and Products - The Complete Guide is the most comprehensive, accessible, practical and up-to-date guide to the global market for inflation-hedging products. The book demonstrates how inflation products can be structured and used successfully in a range of portfolios and investing institutions.